Is Facebook messing up your grades?

Liking statuses, liking photos, liking comments of photos, liking comments on your statuses, trawling the internet for funny pictures and youtube for likes, keeping Facebook open on one tab to wait for likes as you "work."

It may all be a very likable affair; but we all knew the answer to this question before you even opened up this article. Until the vast stratosphere of Academia takes advantage of the vital social networking section of people's lives, it will remain counter-productive.

Jason England

I am the Founder and Editor-in-chief of New Rising Media. You can follow me on Twitter @MrJasonEngland.

The Channel 13 Facebook Hoax. Your Data Is Never Private

So many of you have probably seen long Facebook statuses talking about 'Channel 13,' proclaiming that Facebook cannot use any of their profile data. I've seen a lot of our readers jump on this train, so it's time to set the record straight. This is a hoax, which has been around for more than a couple of years. And the fact you're posting it is ironically making your online information more public.

Facebook is better than sex.

We love it when social sciences do their best to make wild conclusions. A 'scientific' study by sociological journal Cosmopolitan says 20 per cent of women prefer Facebook over sex.

We've unanimously agreed that maybe this number sounds a tad low. Sex has always been about communication between two (or more, depending on how lucky you are) people to push the biological sensibilities to orgasm. The best times are never just the messing-around bit, it's the self affirmation, the aftermath and the conquest. If you were arguing before, that doesn't matter for anything anymore.

Facebook shaves a couple off the six degrees of separation

Facebook has been taking it's mission to take out previous well known concepts: friendship, privacy, personality, and many more. But what about the six degrees of separation? Well now that's wrong: it's not 4.74 across the globe.

Study lists the reasons why you're friended or unfriended on Facebook

So why did that random person add you as a friend on Facebook? Or worse yet, what possible reason could that guy who's been your friend for months just remove you from his friend list without the blink of an eye? It's a time nobody cares about tough time for anyone to be de-friended, which William Shatner has helped the world through. But the question still stands: why? Thats what NM Incite has answered in newly conducted research.